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Method and System for Enhanced Formulation and Visualization Rendering

US 8,345,252 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 1, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by X-Rite, Inc.
Filed Mar 10, 2009 as application 12/401,129 · Granted Jan 1, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 967 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 1, 2021
2006 2028
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2006
No longer in force
Jan 1, 2021
Granted
Jan 1, 2013
Term would have run to
Dec 17, 2028
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
967
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
3
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Dec 17, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 967 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 25, 2006, when application 11/410,451, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 10, 2009)Apr 25, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+967 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 17, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 1, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 1, 2021High confidence

This family

US 7,940,396In force
Jan 2028
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US 7,944,561In force
no later than Jan 2028
no later than Jan 2028
US 8,345,252this patent
Jan 2021
Jan 2021
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Assignments

Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 7, 2009
Reel 22517, frame 432
Nisper, Jon Kenneth; Richardson, Thomas M.; Ellens, Marc S.; Huang, ChangboX-Rite, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 6, 2011
Reel 26082, frame 713
X-rite, IncorporatedBank of America, N.A., as Administrative AgentNotice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents
May 16, 2012
Reel 28218, frame 671
Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative AgentX-Rite, Inc.Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents Recorded on Reel 026082 Frame 0713

Sources

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